On Tue Nov 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM CET, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: > > I'm not sure making version>=? accept numbers is a good idea, > particularly in cases where floats are used to represent versions. > > Example of problem: release version 1.0, then 1.1, 1.2... 1.9 and then > finally 1.10, which is read as 1.1, thus less than 1.9. I remember we > had problems like that with egg versions in the past. > > Nowadays chicken-install in C6 rejects numbers to specify versions in > .egg files [0]. I believe version>=? should do the same to prevent > confusion. In cases where versions are really supposed to be compared > as numbers, people can always use regular numeric operators.
Ok, I can remove the numeric case if you prefer, no problem. cheers, felix
